Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-15


 yesterday. His fate will be instructive for long time.
 Dr. Cyrus Edson has been Investigating the manufacture of cheap ice creams, and he reaches the conclusion that during the heated term the milky preparation is apt to contain fungus growth that is injurious to health. Girls, cut this out and paste it in your hats.
 The strikes in the shoe trade during the last year have cost in wages from $5, 900, ,OO0 to $6,000,000. Nearly half this sum is said to have been lost in the five months strike in Worcester county, Massachusetts, where more leather is cut than in any other county in the world. The Wilmington strike of morocco workers lasted seven months and cost $225, ,000; the strikes of Salem and Peabody, Mass, entailed loss of $500, ,000 in wages. Other lesser strikes bring up the total.
 The Chicago Tribune is cool, as befts a paper published in one of Americas great summer resorts. After quoting from the letter of MT. Cleveland to St. Louis, in which he says: "I assure you abandon my plan
  | it proceeds to plant sting in the breasts of it's fellow countrymen down the river by say 1 ing: Anyone can abandon the idea of visit ing St. Louis without regret, but Mir. Cleve- | lands frankness in testifying to the fact was entirely unexpected"
 The friends of Bishop Taylor's African missions, which are not supported by any | missionary society, have in the past eighteen months contributed nearly $45, 900 to main tain them, besides supplying $24, 900 to | build the bishops steel Congo steamer, which has cost $50, ,OO0 Many of the stations in Angola are now raising much of their food supplies and are thus largely self-supporting. l Seven missionaries have died, but seventy | remain in active service. This does not in- | clude the children, of whom considerable number are with their parents. Bishop Fay Tor is supposed to have joined the last party | that left this country in Liberia, and to be with them now on the Congo, which they | will leave before long to travel hundreds of miles up the Kassai af1uent to the rich Balu- ba country.
 The canvass of presidential preferences made by the Toledo Blade is interesting if not important Not less than q ,3S0 an- swers were received, and every State and l territory in the Union contributed. Mr. Blaine stands first with Il, ,01O votes, Senator Sherman next with 6,6S4, and Robert Lin coin next with 2,237. The remaining thou. sand or two are distributed among several candidates. For second place Sherman has a long lead with 7,633, Blaine following with 3,473 and Lincoln with 2,501. For vice president MT. Lincoln has {, 1896 and Depew is next with 1856. In New York Blaine has 468 and Sherman 131. In Pennsylvania Blaine 910, Sherman 214 Even in Ohio Blaine leads with 1,114 and Sherman has l 1,o42, while in Connecticut the magnetic statesman leads Hawley by one vote.
 Some time ago the postmaster of Cincin- 1 nati contracted with street railroad of that city to carry letter carriers and messenger boys, for which the corporation was to re- ceive stated annual sum from the United States. At a meeting of the Workingmen's club in ward of Cincinnati recently it was resolved to send protest to the United States officials against entering into such 6 contract, claiming that it was an act of hos tility to them. The gist of the matter is that the establishment of United States mail route over the line as implied in the agreement with the road prevents the stop | page of cars in caaa of A strike. AS if is 6